History has been created on K2 as today more than 100 summits have been recorded. The highest number of summits in a single day ever on K2 recorded on July 22, 2022.
It took 40 years to complete 100 summits on K2 and the same milestone has been achieved in a single day.
Records on savage mountain K2 (Godwin Austin).
Records broken during K2 Expedition 2022
Many records have been broken and many records have been created.
First Pakistani woman to summit K2
Samina Baig became the first ever Pakistani woman to summit K2. Naila Kiani holds the record of first woman to scale any 8000ers in Pakistan. Naila also scaled K2 immediately after Samina Baig.
First Saudi Arabian woman to summit K2
Nelly Attar, a Saudi Arabia based Lebanese female climber sets a new record. She becomes the first-ever Arab woman to summit K2, the 2nd highest mountain in the world.
First Iranian woman to summit K2
Afsaneh Hesamifard an Iranian mountaineer, successfully scaled K2 (8611 m) this morning July 22, 2022. Afsaneh became the first Iranian woman on the summit of 2nd highest mountain in the world.
First Bengali to summit K2
Wasfia Nazreen scaled K2 on July 22, 2022, and became the first Bengali ever to summit savage mountain Godwin Austin. She is the most emerging adventurer in Bangladesh.
First Lebanese to summit K2
Naili Mohammadi became the first Lebanese to summit K2. Naili, Nirmal Purja, and Wasfia Nazreen stepped together at the top of K2.
Quickest to summit five 8000ers
Pasdawa Sherpa became the fastest person to summit the five highest mountains in the quickest time. He achieved this feat after the K2 summit on July 22, 2022.
Pasdawa Sherpa summited Kanchenjunga, Everest, Lhotse, Makalu, and K2 within the time frame of 69 days.
Stefi Trouget has summited K2, with no supplementary Oxygen. She dedicated her summit to late Sergi Mingote, Ali Sadpara and Antonio Atanas; all fallen heroes of K2 Winter 2021.
Women shine a lot brighter than men on savage mountain K2 this year.
The first ever summiteers women list has to be updated with many news names such as Samina Baig, Nelly Attar, and Afsaneh Hesamifard.
List of mountaineers summited K2 during summer expedition 2022
There are more than 100 summits have been recorded on K2 during first waves on July 22, 2022. The list of mountaineers scaled K2 are as follows:
- Terray Ellington Sylvester ๐บ๐ฒ
- Claudio “Cacho” Javier Beiza ๐ฆ๐ท
- Nelly Attar ๐ฑ๐ง
- Krisli Melesk ๐ช๐ช
- Aang Phurba Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Siddhi Bahadur Tamang ๐ณ๐ต
- Dorji Gyeljen Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Kamdorji Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Lhakpa Wongchu Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Mingdorji Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Lakpa Bhote ๐ณ๐ต
- Rinji Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Temba Sherpa๐ณ๐ต
- Lakpa Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Sirbaz Khan ๐ต๐ฐ
- Sohail Sakhi ๐ต๐ฐ
- Inayat Ali ๐ต๐ฐ
- Samina Baig ๐ต๐ฐ
- Eid Muhammad ๐ต๐ฐ
- Bulbul Karim ๐ต๐ฐ
- Ahmed Baig ๐ต๐ฐ
- Rizwan Dad ๐ต๐ฐ
- Waqar Ali ๐ต๐ฐ
- Akber Hussain Sadpara ๐ต๐ฐ
- Shah Doulat ๐ต๐ฐ
- Wajid Nagri ๐ต๐ฐ
- Afsaneh Hesamifard ๐ธ๐ฆ
- Naila Kiani ๐ต๐ฐ
- Abdul Joshi ๐ต๐ฐ
- Hameed Ullah ๐ต๐ฐ
- Mansoor Karim Shimshali ๐ต๐ฐ
- Izhar Shimshali ๐ต๐ฐ
- Stefi Trouget ๐ท๐ด
- Nelly Attar ๐ฑ๐ง
- The Legendary Hesamif ๐ฎ๐ท
- Mingtemba Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Monica Witkowska ๐ต๐ฑ
- Pair Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- He Jing ๐จ๐ณ
- Vladimir Kotlyar ๐ท๐บ
- Rare Alharthy ๐ด๐ฒ
- Fura Tshering Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Ngima Tashi Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Grace Tsing ๐ณ๐ต
- Kristin Harila ๐ง๐ป
- Dawa Ongju Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Pasdawa Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Wasfia Nazreen ๐ง๐ฉ
- Naili Mohammadi ๐ธ๐ฆ
- Nirmal Purja ๐ณ๐ต
- Ghulam Abbas Mountaineer ๐ต๐ฐ
- Ali Noorani ๐ต๐ฐ
- Jill Wheatley
- Asma Al Thani
- Fahad Badar
- Miguel Madrid
- Spencer Pipkin
- Isaac Selby
- Marie-pier Desharnais
- A. Leonardo
- Anne Faerovig
- Hakon Asvang
- Anthony Middleton
- Mingma david Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Mingma tenzi Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Mingma temba Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Lakpa tashi Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Mingma Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Nima Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Dawa temba Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Ramesh Gurung
- Phur Bahadur Gurung
- Tenji Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Pam dorjee Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Pasang tshering Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Pasang tendi Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Mitra Tamang
- Mingma dorjee Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Suman Gurung
- Pem chiri Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Kalden phura Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Karma Geljen Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Abid Asad Sadparvi ๐ต๐ฐ
- Sarah Strattan from USA ๐บ๐ธ
- Muhammad Hussein ๐ต๐ฐ
- Paul Etherdge ๐ฌ๐ง
- Peter ๐ฌ๐ง
- Jit Bahadur Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Pemba Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Pasang Namgel Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
- Tsering Sherpa ๐ณ๐ต
The highest number of Pakistani climbers summited K2 in 2022.
The death rate on K2 was quite high in the past. Fortunately, the death rate on K2 this year is less than 1%.
The only man who lost his life on K2 during the first summit wave is Ali Ahmed Sakhi. Ali Ahmed Sakhi was an Afghan climber, who died due to cardiac arrest at Camp4 of Mt. K2. He was the first Afghan to attempt K2 ever but luck was not in his favor.
TYou may mention the name of climbers whose names are missing in the list.